Cultural and Historical Contexts - AP English Literature and Composition
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During what decade was Portnoy’s Complaint published?
During what decade was Portnoy’s Complaint published?
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Portnoy’s Complaint was published in 1969, making it Roth’s fourth published novel.
Portnoy’s Complaint was published in 1969, making it Roth’s fourth published novel.
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Who is the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter?
Who is the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter?
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the first novel by American author Carson McCullers (1917-1967).
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the first novel by American author Carson McCullers (1917-1967).
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During what decade was The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter published?
During what decade was The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter published?
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The novel, McCullers’ first, was set in the 1930s and published in 1940.
The novel, McCullers’ first, was set in the 1930s and published in 1940.
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Who is the author of Brideshead Revisited?
Who is the author of Brideshead Revisited?
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Brideshead Revisited (1945) is Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel and the work he considered his magnum opus.
Kingsley Amis wrote Lucky Jim (1954), Graham Greene wrote The Third Man (1950), Ian McEwan wrote Solar (2010), and D.H Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers (1913).
Brideshead Revisited (1945) is Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel and the work he considered his magnum opus.
Kingsley Amis wrote Lucky Jim (1954), Graham Greene wrote The Third Man (1950), Ian McEwan wrote Solar (2010), and D.H Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers (1913).
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During what decade was Brideshead Revisited published?
During what decade was Brideshead Revisited published?
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Brideshead Revisited was written after the author’s parachute accident in 1943 and was published in 1945.
Brideshead Revisited was written after the author’s parachute accident in 1943 and was published in 1945.
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During what decade is Brideshead Revisited mainly set?
During what decade is Brideshead Revisited mainly set?
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Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945) begins in the 1920s in Britain and concludes in the late 1940s, shortly after the end of World War II.
Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945) begins in the 1920s in Britain and concludes in the late 1940s, shortly after the end of World War II.
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Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Brideshead Revisited?
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Brideshead Revisited?
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Decline and Fall (1928), A Handful of Dust (1934), Scoop (1938), and The Loved One (1948) are all by Evelyn Waugh. The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by the English author Graham Greene.
Decline and Fall (1928), A Handful of Dust (1934), Scoop (1938), and The Loved One (1948) are all by Evelyn Waugh. The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by the English author Graham Greene.
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Which of the following elements of Portnoy’s Complaint resulted in its frequent banning in America and abroad?
Which of the following elements of Portnoy’s Complaint resulted in its frequent banning in America and abroad?
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Although the book does contain a Jewish protagonist, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) was most commonly banned for its explicit depictions of masturbation and other elements of human sexuality.
Although the book does contain a Jewish protagonist, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) was most commonly banned for its explicit depictions of masturbation and other elements of human sexuality.
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Who is the author of the short story “Cathedral”?
Who is the author of the short story “Cathedral”?
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“Cathedral,” (1983) a story about a blind man and a husband and wife, is one of the most famous works by American writer Raymond Carver (1938-1988).
Don DeLillo wrote White Noise (1985), Saul Bellow wrote Herzog (1964), Thomas Pynchon wrote Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and Thomas Wolfe wrote The Right Stuff (1979).
“Cathedral,” (1983) a story about a blind man and a husband and wife, is one of the most famous works by American writer Raymond Carver (1938-1988).
Don DeLillo wrote White Noise (1985), Saul Bellow wrote Herzog (1964), Thomas Pynchon wrote Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and Thomas Wolfe wrote The Right Stuff (1979).
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Which of the following is another work by the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter?
Which of the following is another work by the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter?
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The Ballad of the Sad Café is a 1951 collection containing a novella, poems, plays, and several short stories. (The rest of these titles belong to short stories by Southern writer Flannery O’Connor.)
The Ballad of the Sad Café is a 1951 collection containing a novella, poems, plays, and several short stories. (The rest of these titles belong to short stories by Southern writer Flannery O’Connor.)
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The title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter comes from a poem by which Scottish poet?
The title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter comes from a poem by which Scottish poet?
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Carson McCullers’ title is taken directly from Fiona Macleod’s 1896 poem “The Lonely Hunter.” This answer gives you a helpful clue to narrow down the answer choices: The poet must be Scottish. Dylan Thomas was Welsh, W.B. Yeats was Irish, and Mary Astell was English.
Carson McCullers’ title is taken directly from Fiona Macleod’s 1896 poem “The Lonely Hunter.” This answer gives you a helpful clue to narrow down the answer choices: The poet must be Scottish. Dylan Thomas was Welsh, W.B. Yeats was Irish, and Mary Astell was English.
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Who is the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Who is the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) is Jeanette Winterson’s acclaimed first novel. It is a coming of age story about an adopted lesbian girl in a Pentecostal community in England and contains themes of sexuality and gender normativity as well as elements of autobiography.
Angela Carter wrote Love (1971), Hilary Mantel wrote Wolf Hall (2009), Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth (2000), and A.S Byatt wrote The Shadow of the Sun (1964).
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) is Jeanette Winterson’s acclaimed first novel. It is a coming of age story about an adopted lesbian girl in a Pentecostal community in England and contains themes of sexuality and gender normativity as well as elements of autobiography.
Angela Carter wrote Love (1971), Hilary Mantel wrote Wolf Hall (2009), Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth (2000), and A.S Byatt wrote The Shadow of the Sun (1964).
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During what decade was Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit published?
During what decade was Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit published?
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985 and won a Whitbread Award for a First Novel the same year.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985 and won a Whitbread Award for a First Novel the same year.
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Which of the following is not another work by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
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Jeanette Winterson wrote the novels Sexing the Cherry (1989) and Lighthousekeeping (2004),the essay Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery (1995), and the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011). The Bloody Chamber is a 1979 collection of short stories by the English author Angela Carter.
Jeanette Winterson wrote the novels Sexing the Cherry (1989) and Lighthousekeeping (2004),the essay Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery (1995), and the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011). The Bloody Chamber is a 1979 collection of short stories by the English author Angela Carter.
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What genre of novel is Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
What genre of novel is Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
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Another term for a coming-of-age novel is a bildungsroman. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) concerns the coming-of-age of its lesbian protagonist, Jeanette.
Another term for a coming-of-age novel is a bildungsroman. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) concerns the coming-of-age of its lesbian protagonist, Jeanette.
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This old town of Salem—my native place, though I have dwelt much away from it both in boyhood and maturer years—possesses, or did possess, a hold on my affection, the force of which I have never realized during my seasons of actual residence here.
… The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur, was present to my boyish imagination as far back as I can remember. It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home-feeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town. I seem to have a stronger claim to a residence here on account of this grave, bearded, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor—who came so early, with his Bible and his sword, and trode the unworn street with such a stately port, and made so large a figure, as a man of war and peace—a stronger claim than for myself, whose name is seldom heard and my face hardly known. He was a soldier, legislator, judge; he was a ruler in the Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil. He was likewise a bitter persecutor; as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories, and relate an incident of his hard severity towards a woman of their sect, which will last longer, it is to be feared, than any record of his better deeds, although these were many. His son, too, inherited the persecuting spirit, and made himself so conspicuous in the martyrdom of the witches, that their blood may fairly be said to have left a stain upon him. So deep a stain, indeed, that his dry old bones, in the Charter-street burial-ground, must still retain it, if they have not crumbled utterly to dust! I know not whether these ancestors of mine bethought themselves to repent, and ask pardon of Heaven for their cruelties; or whether they are now groaning under the heavy consequences of them in another state of being.
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This old town of Salem—my native place, though I have dwelt much away from it both in boyhood and maturer years—possesses, or did possess, a hold on my affection, the force of which I have never realized during my seasons of actual residence here.
… The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur, was present to my boyish imagination as far back as I can remember. It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home-feeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town. I seem to have a stronger claim to a residence here on account of this grave, bearded, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor—who came so early, with his Bible and his sword, and trode the unworn street with such a stately port, and made so large a figure, as a man of war and peace—a stronger claim than for myself, whose name is seldom heard and my face hardly known. He was a soldier, legislator, judge; he was a ruler in the Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil. He was likewise a bitter persecutor; as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories, and relate an incident of his hard severity towards a woman of their sect, which will last longer, it is to be feared, than any record of his better deeds, although these were many. His son, too, inherited the persecuting spirit, and made himself so conspicuous in the martyrdom of the witches, that their blood may fairly be said to have left a stain upon him. So deep a stain, indeed, that his dry old bones, in the Charter-street burial-ground, must still retain it, if they have not crumbled utterly to dust! I know not whether these ancestors of mine bethought themselves to repent, and ask pardon of Heaven for their cruelties; or whether they are now groaning under the heavy consequences of them in another state of being.
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This excerpt is taken from the well-known first chapter of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
Passage adapted from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
This excerpt is taken from the well-known first chapter of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
Passage adapted from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
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Which of the following is not another work by the author of the short story “Cathedral”?
Which of the following is not another work by the author of the short story “Cathedral”?
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“The Swimmer” is a 1964 story by the American writer John Cheever. All the rest are well known works by Raymond Carver.
“So Much Water So Close to Home” and “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” were included in Carver's 1981 collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. "Neighbors" was included in Carver's 1976 collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?. “Where I’m Calling From” was the titular story in the short story collection Carver published just before his death in 1988.
“The Swimmer” is a 1964 story by the American writer John Cheever. All the rest are well known works by Raymond Carver.
“So Much Water So Close to Home” and “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” were included in Carver's 1981 collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. "Neighbors" was included in Carver's 1976 collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?. “Where I’m Calling From” was the titular story in the short story collection Carver published just before his death in 1988.
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How could the prose style of the author of “Cathedral” best be described?
How could the prose style of the author of “Cathedral” best be described?
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Although the term "minimalism" offended and bothered him, like Ernest Hemingway, Mary Robison, and Amy Hempel, Raymond Carver is known for his sparse, minimalist prose style and commitment to brevity and syntactic conciseness.
Although the term "minimalism" offended and bothered him, like Ernest Hemingway, Mary Robison, and Amy Hempel, Raymond Carver is known for his sparse, minimalist prose style and commitment to brevity and syntactic conciseness.
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Who is the famous Esquire editor known for working with the author of “Cathedral”?
Who is the famous Esquire editor known for working with the author of “Cathedral”?
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While all of these men worked as editors, Gordon Lish is the editor known for paring down Raymond Carver’s work and contributing significantly to the author’s hallmark terseness in his collections prior to Cathedral (1983). After splitting with Lish, Carver's work took on a more hopeful, expansive tone.
While all of these men worked as editors, Gordon Lish is the editor known for paring down Raymond Carver’s work and contributing significantly to the author’s hallmark terseness in his collections prior to Cathedral (1983). After splitting with Lish, Carver's work took on a more hopeful, expansive tone.
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Who is the author of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”?
Who is the author of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”?
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“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” (1966) is one of Joyce Carol Oates’ best known short stories.
Mary Robison wrote Believe Them: Stories (1988), Ayn Rand wrote We the Living (1936), Kate Chopin wrote "The Storm" (1898), and Barbara Kingsolver wrote Animal Dreams (1990).
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” (1966) is one of Joyce Carol Oates’ best known short stories.
Mary Robison wrote Believe Them: Stories (1988), Ayn Rand wrote We the Living (1936), Kate Chopin wrote "The Storm" (1898), and Barbara Kingsolver wrote Animal Dreams (1990).
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